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  "thread": {
    "id": 5238,
    "subject": "AstroEngineering",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2008-11-26T00:06:14+00:00",
    "last": "2008-11-30T20:36:40+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<W5711310451290141227657974@webmail40>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Son of Witz",
        "address": "sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org"
      },
      "date": "2008-11-26T00:06:14+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) AstroEngineering",
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          "text": "Can anyone help me out with this \"black hole\" thing?\nI see how it's inferred from the text at one point, when Aquastor Malrubius says: (Citadel, XXXI, Sand Garden)\n\"You know of the chasms of space, which some call the Black Pits,\nfrom which no speck of matter or gleam of light ever returns. But\nwhat you have not known until now is that these chasms have their\ncounterparts in White Fountains, from which matter and energy\nrejected by a higher universe flow in endless cataract into this one.\"\n\nand there is the Worm eating the Sun:  Claw IV, Boquet\n\"You, the hero who will destroy the black worm that devours the sun;\"\n(more on that quote later)\n\nbut where does the idea that the Black Hole is the product of AstroEngineering. I don't have the Lexicon on hand, but I don't remember it giving a textual reference.\n\nwhat do folks make of that?\nDo the Hierodules say they put it there in Urth?"
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    {
      "message_id": "<4932F958.7020204@io.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jeff Wilson",
        "address": "jwilson at io.com"
      },
      "date": "2008-11-30T20:36:40+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) AstroEngineering",
      "in_reply_to": "<W5711310451290141227657974@webmail40>",
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          "text": "Son of Witz wrote:\nCan anyone help me out with this \"black hole\" thing?\nI see how it's inferred from the text at one point, when Aquastor Malrubius says: (Citadel, XXXI, Sand Garden)\n\"You know of the chasms of space, which some call the Black Pits,\nfrom which no speck of matter or gleam of light ever returns. But\nwhat you have not known until now is that these chasms have their\ncounterparts in White Fountains, from which matter and energy\nrejected by a higher universe flow in endless cataract into this one.\"\n\nand there is the Worm eating the Sun:  Claw IV, Boquet\n\"You, the hero who will destroy the black worm that devours the sun;\"\n(more on that quote later)\n\nbut where does the idea that the Black Hole is the product of\nAstroEngineering. I don't have the Lexicon on hand, but I don't remember\nit giving a textual reference.\n\nwhat do folks make of that?\nDo the Hierodules say they put it there in Urth?"
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          "text": "ISTR that it has been traced to the black beans thrown by a woman, and \nthat the woman has been identified as Typhon's daughter Scylla, but I \ncouldn't provide you with the provenance or a reference."
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          "text": "Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com\n< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >"
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